Editing American Enterprise Institute (section)

==Funding==
In the 1980s, about 60% of its funding came from organizations like [[Lilly Endowment]], the [[Smith Richardson Foundation]], the Rockefeller Brothers Trust and the [[Earhart Foundation]]. The remaining of their funding was from major corporations like [[Bethlehem Steel]], [[Exxon]], [[J.C. Penney]] and the [[Chase Manhattan Bank]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Weinraub |first1=Bernard |title=INSTITUTE PLAYS KEY ROLE IN SHAPING REAGAN PROGRAMS |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/15/us/institute-plays-key-role-in-shaping-reagan-programs.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=15 January 1981}}</ref>

{{as of|2005}}, AEI had received $960,000 from [[ExxonMobil]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/05/put-tiger-your-think-tank|title=Put a Tiger In Your Think Tank|access-date=April 5, 2018|archive-date=April 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417081333/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/05/put-tiger-your-think-tank/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Purdue Pharma]], a company known as the maker of [[OxyContin]], one of the many drugs abused in the [[opioid epidemic in the United States]], donated $50,000 a year to the AEI from 2003 through 2019, plus contributions for special events, adding to a total greater than $800,000.<ref name="ProPublica">{{Cite web|title=Inside Purdue Pharma's Media Playbook: How It Planted the Opioid 'Anti-Story'|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-purdue-pharma-media-playbook-how-it-planted-the-opioid-anti-story|last=Armstrong|first=David|date=19 November 2019|work=[[ProPublica]]|access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>

In the 2009 tax year, its four largest funders were a [[donor-advised fund]], [[Donors Capital Fund]] ($2,000,000), [[Paul Singer (businessman)|Paul Singer]] ($1,100,000), the [[Kern Family Foundation]] ($1,071,912) and the [[Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office]] (TECRO), [[Taiwan]]’s equivalent to an embassy. Seventh largest was the [[US Chamber of Commerce]] ($473,000).<ref name="NationTaiwan"/> In 2010, AEI received a {{USD}}2.5 million grant from the Donors Capital Fund.<ref name=businessinsider>{{cite news|title=Inside The Secretive Dark-Money Organization That's Keeping The Lights On For Conservative Groups|first=Walter|last=Hickley|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/donors-trust-capital-fund-conservative-dark-money-2013-2|newspaper=[[Business Insider]]|date=February 12, 2013|access-date=April 30, 2015|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924043939/http://www.businessinsider.com/donors-trust-capital-fund-conservative-dark-money-2013-2|url-status=live}}</ref> Foundations associated with the [[Koch brothers]] have been major funders of the Institute.<ref name="t509"/>

A 2013 study by [[Drexel University]] Sociologist Robert J. Brulle noted that AEI received $86.7 million between 2003 and 2010.<ref>{{citation
|url=http://www.drexel.edu/~/media/Files/now/pdfs/Institutionalizing%20Delay%20-%20Climatic%20Change.ashx/
|title=Institutionalizing delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate change counter-movement organizations
|first=Robert J.
|last=Brulle
|date=January 25, 2013
|journal=Climatic Change
|volume=122
|issue=4
|page=681
|doi=10.1007/s10584-013-1018-7
|bibcode=2014ClCh..122..681B
|s2cid=27538787
|access-date=October 12, 2019
|archive-date=October 9, 2019
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009112708/https://drexel.edu/~/media/Files/now/pdfs/Institutionalizing%20Delay%20-%20Climatic%20Change.ashx
|url-status=live
}}</ref>

AEI received more than $1.6 million from the [[Charles Koch Foundation]] between 2011 and 2016, over $5 million from conservative donor advised funds [[DonorsTrust]] and [[Donors Capital Fund]] between 2012 and 2016, over $1.7 million from the [[Sarah Scaife Foundation]] between 2012 and 2016, $480,000 from the [[Bradley Foundation]] from 2012 to 2016, and $425,000 from the [[Coors Foundation]] between 2011 and 2016.<ref name="j090"/>

In 2014, the [[Charity evaluator|charity evaluating]] service [[American Institute of Philanthropy]] gave AEI an "A−" grade in its CharityWatch "Top-Rated Charities" listing.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.charitywatch.org/top-rated-charities?ref=toprated.html#public | title=Top Rated Charities | website=Charity Watch | access-date=October 18, 2018 | archive-date=October 18, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018161901/https://www.charitywatch.org/top-rated-charities?ref=toprated.html#public | url-status=live }}</ref> AEI's revenues for the fiscal year ending June 2015 were $84,616,388 against expenses of $38,611,315.<ref name=guidestar>{{cite web|title=IRS Form 990|url=http://www.guidestar.org/profile/53-0218495|website=GuideStar|publisher=Internal Revenue Service|access-date=September 14, 2016|archive-date=September 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920082936/http://www.guidestar.org/profile/53-0218495|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2017-2018, the AEI received significant funding from the [[Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation]], including $1 million in 2017.<ref name="q657">{{cite web | title=A look at DeVos family philanthropic giving | website=POLITICO | date=7 December 2018 | url=https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-education/2018/12/07/a-look-at-devos-family-philanthropic-giving-446541 | access-date=5 September 2024}}</ref>